Based on extensive documentary material, the image of Pyotr Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev, one of the organizers of the Russian regular army, who applied new combat strategies, a complex, contradictory, courageous and fearless man, was created. The First Russian-Turkish War and the defeat of the Turks on the tributaries of the Prut River raised him to the rank of the greatest commanders of the 18th century. In August 1999, Viktor Vasilyevich Petelin received the Valentin Pikul Literary Prize for the book “Field Marshal Rumyantsev.”